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Microsoft, apple, google, meta, amazon, tencent what was preventing them to buy twitter?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Because its usefulness is not on the money-making side of business, so it wouldn't make sense to buy.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Imo it's still very valuable even if not profitable. eg YouTube is quite famously a massive money sink for Google but I doubt Google would want to let go of its monopoly on online video sharing.